"In terms of funding, we've broken the project into phases.
Students of crises are fond of dividing them into phases.
To make the project manageable (and narratable), Beavan divides his effort into phases.
Plenty of musicians fall into phases where such things are all they can produce.
To make matters more confusing, the Pentagon partitions "major combat operations" (known more commonly as a war) into "phases".
Mr. Humphreys broke down these transactions into phases, which are remarkably similar to the description of Senator Craig's behavior given by the police.
Her show at the Bowery Ballroom on Wednesday was neatly partitioned into phases of her career, and it had a stop-and-start, by-the-numbers feeling.
O'Brien's novels have been divided into phases: the early, autobiographical books about women's struggles and desires; the later state-of-the-nation works about Irish history and politics.
The cost over 10 years to put the redesign in place, Ms. Berger said, depends on how city officials embrace the idea — whether they decide to try a "full-on reconstruction" or divide the project into phases.
A year ago, the city announced that it had selected Sterling Equities, a real estate company owned by Mr. Wilpon and Mr. Katz, and Related, and abruptly changed the redevelopment plan and broke it into phases.
All parasites have a life cycle that involves a period of time spent in a host organism and that can be divided into phases of growth, reproduction, and transmission.
